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[May. 7th, 2008|07:33 am] |
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Yesterday was, physiologically speaking, headache-free. This morning feels like today shall be as well. Usually, I'm pretty good at anticipating these things, so let's hope that holds up.
Work-wise, it wasn't much worse. I had a (L)user-based problem first thing in the AM, setting up someone's profile on a new machine, but that wasn't the poor computer's fault. I had issues that required two trips to the main building to essentially flip a switch in order to get people up and running. And in the afternoon, I had to go dismantle two workstations that are moving so I can re-mantle them this morning in their new office. No big. The one crisis occurred when I realized we weren't getting inbound internet email, nor could you navigate to our website or reach our remote server by name. But pinging the IP address worked, so I figured out our DNS server was down. I called the folks who host it, and learned they'd had a power issue and that it should have been up as we were speaking. And it was. I love it when a crisis comes up that I can 1) diagnose, and 2) diagnose as something not caused by a problem on our end.
I had some time to kill before pre-game dinner and wandered over to Borders. Good move that. When I was heading towards the checkout counter, I chanced upon the very pleasant Charlaine Harris signing copies of the latest volume of Jane's current guilty pleasure, the "Southern Vampire" series. I got her to sign a copy to Jane, thereby garnering mondo Good Husband Points. Also picked up the new Wild Cards hardback. I followed the series religiously back in the day, and much more indifferently when they tried to revive it a few years ago, but this volume seems to be going for more of a generational break from the past. So far, it's pretty decent.
Last night's game was a transition. Val leveled up. Paladin's don't get much when they hit 10th, but he managed some nifty swag from prior adventures, and there's a damsel to court, and drow to kill down in the basement, so he's a happy camper all the same.
Starting some groundwork for a supers game I'm looking to run for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) j_in_question and a number of the Clix crew who don't live too far away. Too early to tell what that's going to be like, but it's got the creative juices moving around a bit.
Finally, spare a thought for mechanteanemone, who was already dealing with recent bad job mojo and then lost her father yesterday. :-( |
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Don loves the Wild Card series...glad to hear a decent review...as I am planning on getting him several volumes for xmas prezzies...to get his series complete...
I don't know mechanteanemone, but I will think good thoughts for her and her family...
Glad to hear it's been a few relatively-headache free days...
Oooh, I like Charlaine Harris, too. Nice score!
In the interest of full disclosure, I've read the entire series as well and will doubtlessly read this one once Jane's done with it.
I think I'm at least a couple behind; it's good to hear that the series stays enjoyable.
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You can't just randomly drop in that you bumped into Charlaine Harris! O v O
Did you talk to her at all? Is she on a book tour? Tell me more, man!
Heh. Well, it was pretty much that way, really. As far as I could piece together, she's touring to support the new novel and was in Houston to do a reading at Murder by the Book, a mystery bookstore nearby. Obviously, her publicist arranged for her to drop in to the Borders to sign books. She wasn't doing a scheduled table signing, just autographing what they had in stock, so it was really just fortuitous that I was walking by and realized what was going on. She was quite gracious and made sure she had the spelling of Jane's name right, and that was that.
Man. I don't think I'd've been able to keep from squeeing aloud.
She's my favorite "guilty pleasure" author. And I've been wanting to talk to SOMEONE about how awesomely Sookie sidestepped the Mary Sue concerns in the last book of hers I read. | |
